Evdokia Duken Laskarin ( Greek Εὐδοκία Δούκαινα Λασκαρίνα , d. 1311) is the Nicene Princess, daughter of Emperor Theodore II Laskaris and Helena of Bulgaria , sister of Emperor John IV .
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Emperor Michael VIII , who sought to get rid of the daughters of Theodore, in whom he saw possible pretenders to the throne, married her at the end of 1261 to marry the Ligurian Count Guglielmo Pierrot de Ventimiglia (1230-1278), who arrived at that time in Constantinople. In 1262, she went with her husband to Italy. Five children were born in this marriage:
- Giovanni I Laskaris, Count of Ventimiglia, Count of Tenda. From it comes the branch of Laskaris-Ventimiglia.
- Giacomo Laskaris, Count of Ventimiglia.
- Otto Laskaris, Bishop of Ventimiglia.
- Lucretia Lascaris di Ventimiglia.
- Vatatsa Lascaris di Ventimiglia, married to Portuguese nobleman Martin Gilles de Souza. Maid of honor Isabella of Aragon , wife of the Portuguese king Dinis I.
After the death of Count de Ventimiglia in 1278, together with the widow of John III Vatac Anna Constance and her unmarried daughters, she went to the court of the king of Aragon. There in 1281 she married Arnaud Roger de Commenge, Count de Pallard (d. 1288) [1] .
In the second marriage she gave birth to three more children:
- Sibylla (d. 1330), Countess de Pallard, married to Hugo, Baron de Mataplan (d. 1328), who became Count de Pallard de iure uxoris. From them comes the later line of the Counts de Pallar.
- Violanta [2] (d. After 1311), married (1297) to Jimeno Coronel.
- Beatrice (d. After 1330), Viscountess de Villamur, married to Guillermo de Anglesola.
After the death of her husband, she began an affair with Admiral Bernat de Serria, which resulted in her removal from the Aragonese court. Died in 1311, buried in a Dominican monastery in Zaragoza .
Notes
- ↑ There is a version that the wife of Count de Pallard was not Evdokia, but her daughter Lucretia.
- ↑ Perhaps she was the wife of Pedro II de Ayerbe, a late grandson of the King of Aragon, Jaime I, as a certain Violanta di Ventimiglia is indicated in his genealogy as his wife. But in this case, she must be the daughter of her first marriage [1] .
Literature
- Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit. Vien, 2001. ISBN 978-3-7001-3310-0